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Statement of Intent -

Abstracts Squared

I am strongly drawn to The Abstract, and to modern architecture as abstract subject matter. Modern buildings are impactful subjects for abstract imagery, with strong lines, shapes, angles, colours, and textures.

I wanted to explore The Abstract, and discover how far it is possible to push architectural images, themselves abstract to begin with, further from Abstract Photography towards Abstract Art.

I have taken my initial images (Abstraction by Isolation) and digitally shattered them, separating the pieces and recombining them by creative processing (Abstraction by Alteration), to form new lines & shapes…. “squaring” the abstraction contained therein.

The newly-created geometry further reduces the literal representation of the buildings, and engages the viewer’s imagination by providing a new canvas for the eye to explore.

The constraint of monochrome further focuses the attention purely on the lines, shapes and forms, and the square format symbolically represents how the images have become “abstracts squared”.

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Author's comments -

I started from abstract architectural images, and processed them into further abstraction by using both Photoshop and iPad apps called Tangle and Fragment. These apps are complex programs in their own right, and a great deal of experimentation and trial & error was involved, to find a process which gave me an outcome I was satisfied with. This process was then applied to each image in turn, after which the output was returned into Photoshop, and blended with the original image, to retain some recognisable portion of the architecture.

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